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=== User: I wouldn't even include flooding/arousal as part of the meta-cluster, as the difference between pre-frontal cortex shut… ===
I wouldn't even include flooding/arousal as part of the meta-cluster, as the difference between pre-frontal cortex shutdown and it being online is just a measurement how bad they really are off. There's a spectrum that is "Person who is making the same kinds of repeated errors and lack of self-correction a person who can mitigate them and self-correct does, while they're flooding whether they're flooding or not," that person who mitigates those errors and self-corrects at a higher rate by default but still declines heavily while being emotionally flooded/aroused, and becomes flooded to a degree often enough that their default calm state is less seen and effective," and the person who's practiced well enough that even in their flooded to a degree state they still maintain plenty of cognitive functionality despite the decline and it still being on a sliding scale according to emotion/feeling state."

There is definitely a correlation with the higher the skills, the less flooding/arousal there will be and shorter amount of time it will take to naturally return to default, but it's so circumstantial that it makes sense to keep it out of the picture unless we're measuring it tangibly (heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, etc). It's not to say skill is the only determining factor, but rather that there's another meta-cluster of variables, an other side of the coin, that explain their trajectory via causal empathy, that are less interconnected in terms of their effect on one another, but share a correlation in terms of their likelihood all the same.